I have a RAID 5 array with 4 2TB disks on a HP Z800. One disk failed and was swapped out for a new one.
I went into BIOS Intel Storage Matrix Utility and set the Array to rebuild with the new disk. ...

I recently upgraded my OS from RHEL 5 to 6. To do so, I installed the new OS on new disks, and I want to mount the old disks. The old disks are listed as /dev/sdc and sdd in the new system, they were ...

I've been running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for about 6 months on a computer that has 3 180gb SSDs in EXT4 RAID5 configured through the motherboard's BIOS. The OS froze and computer had to be forced down. On ...

I'm in a bit of a pickle. I have a headless server (Acer EasyStore) running Ubuntu 12.04.1, which, after an update, now refuses to boot. It has four disks, one of which holds the OS in a partition and ...

Q: How do I force a rebuild? The following describes the scenario.
I've been experimenting with forcing a RAID10 to rebuild, so I could see what dmsetup status output should look like when a RAID is ...

I have a homeserver running under XenServer control with 3x1TB discs inside, one for XenServer and two mirrored(using Intel's fakeRAID and dmraid) for VMs and a user data(but now I think RAID didn't ...